The social ontology of the Metaverse

Last updated Dec 16, 2022 Edit Source

The social ontology of the Metaverse – Mark Carrigan

• 著者はCambridgeの社会学者

• なんかシンプルに読みづらい英文だな

• そもそもsocial ontologyとは

  • socialな存在論、なるほど

These developments need to be seen as continuous with the intoxicating lure of the (phone/computer/television) screen and the conditions under which immersion comes to be alluring for the first place

• この連続的に捉えるの、採用したい

The inevitably with which questions about the ‘human’ emerge when we subject the normative claims about the metaverse to any level of analysis mean these debates intersect in interesting ways with the conflict between neo-humanism, transhumanism and posthumanism (see also postdigital humans).

• まさにじゃん

I share his scepticism about the possibility of a good life within the Metaverse on roughly similar theoretical grounds. To live well is a relationship we cultivate with the world rather than a subjective feeling of wellbeing. Are what Archer and Donati call relational goods possible within the Metaverse? Can we build trust with others and work together?

• このscepticismの基礎付けを整理したい

  • これはあんまり期待できなさそうかも

• relational goods

  • 他人との交流によってのみ生まれ消費される財のこと

• 問題意識

  • If we’re leaving neoliberalism and entering something worse the disruption of the last 2 years should be seen as a foreshadowing of future upheaval rather than an exception to the norm.

  • ここにおいて、Reality previlegeと呼ばれているものが真剣に検討されるべき
  • Marc Andreessen:
    • 物理的realityがそれ以外のrealityより良いと思っているのは少数
      • バーチャルなものをinferior/逃亡先/dystopianと捉えているのはその少数のpriviledgeだ、という主張

      • The Reality Privileged, of course, call this conclusion dystopian, and demand that we prioritize improvements in reality over improvements in virtuality. To which I say: reality has had 5,000 years to get good, and is clearly still woefully lacking for most people; I don’t think we should wait another 5,000 years to see if it eventually closes the gap. We should build — and we are building — online worlds that make life and work and love wonderful for everyone, no matter what level of reality deprivation they find themselves in.

        • 同意
  • 筆者:
    • いやそうはいってもdystopianだろ、
      • おっ
      • それを聞きたい

    • This is why I find Sacasas’s approach so valuable in beginning to interrogate the possibility for a good life within the metaverse, the technological conditions which frustrate it and what this reflects about the nature of human beings.

      • とは
        • ここでどうnature of human beingとつながるのかは拾いたいかも
        • The Dream of Virtual Reality
          • Reality +という本に言及

    • The inevitably with which questions about the ‘human’ emerge when we subject the normative claims about the metaverse to any level of analysis mean these debates intersect in interesting ways with the conflict between neo-humanism, transhumanism and posthumanism (see also postdigital humans). I don’t usually find Braidotti an interesting thinker but I’m genuinely fascinated to see how she responds to the idea of the Metaverse.

      • “metaverse"の規範的議論をすると、人のあり方の議論とも絡まってくるでと言っている
        • え、なんで
        • Postdigital Humans： Transitions, Transformations and Transcendenceを読め、と
  • - まあなんかそもそもこの二元論おかしいだろという気はする、その点はNianticの思想と近いかも？